Edwin Willard Deming Signed Bear Couple Small Sculpture print of Jack Kerouac making me believe this may

making me believe this may be the original from which his bronzes were made

There are a series of X's carved lightly into the exterior near the top on one side

and on the opposite is a nude Adam in a similar reclining pose

He's been carefully hand-painted with a sweet face

and the number 55631 written in pencil in the upper left corner

Edwin Willard Deming Signed Bear Couple Small Sculpture print of Jack Kerouac making me believe this mayThe connection between these two little bears is about the most tender thing I can imagine, expressed across every inch of this small sculpture, from the expressions on their faces, to the wrapped arms, to their lined up little toes! The piece is by Edwin Willard Deming (18601942), an artist best known for his depiction of scenes of Native Americans in the Southwestern U. S, among whom he lived for a part of each year for most of his life, and by whom